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🗓️ 3 October 2024
⏱️ 85 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | My favorite thing that Forbes does is they will write an article about a billionaire who has lost money. |
| 0:10.0 | And the story will always like lament them, you know what to be like the misfortunes of Jeff Baysos. |
| 0:16.0 | And they'll be like, Carlos Slim used to be one of the richest men in the world. |
| 0:20.0 | Now he languishes in 15 spots. I do think that's a that's the difficulty of |
| 0:26.2 | being human is that some of our progress is the fact that we are never satisfied. |
| 0:33.0 | Some of our progress lies in the fact that we're always yearning for more |
| 0:36.8 | and then the downside becomes that we create a false flaw. |
| 0:40.0 | You're listening to what now? |
| 0:42.0 | The podcast where I ch are interesting people about the |
| 0:45.3 | conversations taking over our world. And this week, ooh, what an interesting conversation. |
| 0:52.4 | Joining myself and Christina in studio is Yval Noah Harare. |
| 0:57.0 | If you've heard of Sapiens, you know who Yval is. |
| 1:00.0 | That was the book that completely changed people's ideas of how we organize society |
| 1:06.4 | and why humans have the power we do. Well his new book Nexus is just as contentious. |
| 1:13.3 | It focuses on a possible answer to what makes society work and what could break it completely. |
| 1:20.6 | The rise of AI, the war in the Middle East, the breakdown in communication between politicians and the people. |
| 1:28.0 | In this episode, we discuss it all. |
| 1:31.0 | As I often say, the only thing I love more than peeling back the layers of a story |
| 1:34.4 | is doing it with my favorite thinkers, and Yuval is indeed one of my favorite thinkers. |
| 1:40.0 | Whether you agree with him on everything or not, it's definitely going to set your brain on fire. |
| 1:45.0 | This is what now with Trevanoa. |
| 1:55.0 | Hey, it's Adam Grant, host of Work Life, another podcast from the TED Audio Collective. |
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